Comrade Lenin cited vivid examples showing that Soviet power was
day by day gaining ever greater significance in the minds of the
working people and was giving them ever greater proof that it is
the power of the working people themselves.

“The man with a gun-who was the terror of the working
people in the past!” said Comrade Lenin“is no longer
a terror for he is now a representative of the Red Army, and is
their protector”